--- title: Atresmedia modernises Spain’s most popular streaming platform with Canonical Charmed Kubernetes description: The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical. SPAIN, August 24, 2021— Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Atresmedia, the leading company in the Over-The-Top (OTT) services market in Spain, selected its Cha […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/atresmedia-modernises-spains-most-popular-streaming-platform-with-canonical-charmed-kubernetes?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. 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Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). Sign up The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical. SPAIN, August 24, 2021— Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Atresmedia, the leading company in the Over-The-Top (OTT) services market in Spain, selected its [Charmed Kubernetes](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/features) to build a new microservice-based architecture for the communication group’s streaming platform, ATRESplayer. Despite the strong presence of competitors from all over the world, ATRESplayer is the most popular streaming platform in Spain, with more than 8.6 million registered, offering quality content such as La Casa de Papel (Money Heist), #LUIMELIA, Veneno and many more. Having a monolithic architecture in environments that couldn’t be upgraded easily, became a significant drawback for ATRESplayer. The architecture prevented Atresmedia’s content management solution from operating effectively and only offered limited scalability, making it difficult for the streaming platform to cope with peaks in demand during live broadcasts that generate high traffic. As Miguel Rodríguez, IT Project Manager at Atresmedia, explains, maintaining a leading position in the market requires more than just content: “We are committed to providing customers with the best possible user experience. This means always being on the lookout for new ways to improve the scalability, resilience and time-to-market of new features. When we found that our application architecture was too rigid, we knew we had to do something.” To provide the best user experience, Atresmedia opted to update its architecture to microservices, an environment in which each software application is broken down into independent container-based services. By making the switch to Canonical Charmed Kubernetes, scalability and upgradeability were now possible. Increasing the levels of automation in its infrastructure and applications gave the company significant cost savings, and ended its scalability problems. Thanks to container technology, microservices provided Atresmedia with the flexibility and ease of management that the group was looking to obtain.  Of all the microservices solutions Atresmedia tested, Canonical Charmed Kubernetes delivered the best results and offered the added benefit of large-scale community support. [Download the case study to learn more.](https://ubuntu.com/engage/atresmedia-charmed-kubernetes-case-study) **About Canonical** Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the OS for most public cloud workloads as well as the emerging categories of smart gateways, self-driving cars, and advanced robots. Canonical provides enterprise security, support, and services to commercial users of Ubuntu and [Kubernetes](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes). 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